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Rob,

So back then if the 35 gig Load source drive was getting filled, my CE
really thought that the drive had become just the system objects/files
and that was how I heard him. That "chunk" was now at the end of the
drive size. Hence, let's move to 70 gig drives for minimum.
Interesting, and kinda useless information. Love it.

Bill





From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/31/2017 12:24 PM
Subject: RE: 7.3 upgrade & disk space requirement
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Think of it like this.

You have x number of drives.
One of those drives is flagged as your load source drive.
When you load LIC on to your system it takes up a chunk of that drive.
Maybe you can think of it as a big IFS file which doesn't show up in
WRKLNK. But it has a special flag on it to say stay on the load source
drive only. And it will use contiguous space instead of being scattered
like single level storage stuff is.
So, when you upgrade from 7.1 it needs to increase the size of this chunk.

It does a special operation where it clears the disk following this chunk

up to the new size. It just moves objects in it's way to other sectors
and/or drives. Then it reserves the contiguous space needed for this
chunk.


Rob Berendt

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